Sarah Palin Is Man Made Hot

There were also occasional, disturbing flashes of the old, pre-campaign Sarah Palin. When asked about the causes of global warming, Ms. Palin suggested that man had some role — but she wasn’t saying how much.

I wonder which US state will be the first to secede from the Union, marking the beginning of the balkanisation of the US? Provided we don’t manage to pull back from disaster this time? It’s not as if we can have another war (a la FDR and Winnie) – there’s no-one left to fight with…

With a country packed with legislators convinced that tax breaks will have the money markets back on their feet in no time, secession is certainly going to look good to some of the loonies. If it weren’t for Sarah Alaska would probably be first in the queue…

Oh, I wasn’t joking, chenier. I’m just hoping a ragtag confederation won’t have access to the ‘football’ any more. We can look forward to neo-feudalism over here ( not admittedly a welcome thought) if there aren’t going to be any boom-tipped fireworks coming our way from across the pond. I asked becasue I read about 450 comments from mostly US citizens after a piece on Sarah Palin in the Times. A lot of the more ‘conservative’ comments – and most were – stated that they didn’t care what the rest of the world though about their elections. Come secession/balkanisation, they won’t care what folks in the next town think either.

Yes, the few of “this happy breed” who chipped in pointed that out. There were many moderate comments too, but even they referred to the Times as a liberal newspaper, the EU as a socialist entity and America as ‘the world’s policeman’…and they’ve nearly all got guns. There was talk of people ‘stocking up’ with supplies too. The bankers may have gotten us into this, but I’m going to cheer them on if the alternative is the USS Roanld Reagan coming to steal our lighthouses…

I’m sure there was an American statesman who warned against the US becoming the world’s poiliceman a couple of hundred years ago in some speech or treatise…I’m damned if I can find it though. 🙁